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If you think fronting the cost of condoms for teenagers is expensive, wait till you see how much it costs the state to provide services for a single teen mother
What is up with Newsome vetoing all this shit suddenly?
Presumably getting ready to launch his own presidential bid, so he needs to court the center by appearing more moderate.
Or the opposing side trying to make him look bad. California still sets the standards for a lot of rules that we'd be better off with the rest of the country copying.
Yeah honestly it seems like a targeted media blitz more than anything. If you read the actual article, most of his vetos are done for very good reasons - but they're all being posted with reductive headlines
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The CA legislature passed a buttload of bills right before adjourning, so he's working his way through them now. Plus, CA has a budget deficit, so stuff that costs money has to be more carefully considered - free condoms are a worthwhile thing, but then the question becomes what do you cut instead? It's not always an easy question.
How much do they actually expect these to cost? How about they cancel fireworks at the next sports event. That'd probably cover it
California state government doesn't pay for fireworks.
How much would prohibiting caste discrimination or decriminalizing psilocybin increase the deficit?
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We had condoms in our school washrooms in the late 90s in Canada. Pads in the ladies room as well. At a broke ass public school that had out of date text books.
America really is a weird fucked up religiously warped place.
Yes and these vetos have nothing to do with cost and everything to do with Newsom positioning to be president.
He doesn't want to generate talking points for the right wingnut propaganda machine.
Vetos on progressive therapeutics, caste discrimination, etc.
Then there's kissing up to the big donor utilities to appoint a CPUC to hobble solar.
It really sucks because he could do good but nope.
The amount of bills he veto in last weeks makes me ask is this mother fucker a Republican or Democrat? He sure is veto bills he should be signing. If I was a Californian I be looking for his replacement and primary his sorry ass.
The amount of bills he veto in last weeks makes me ask is this mother fucker a Republican or Democrat?
Forgot the third option, preparing the run for President.
Just FYI: most family planning centers, like Planned Parenthood, hospitals and birthing clinics already give out free condoms to anyone who asks. That's where I was getting mine when I was a teenager.
They give you bags stuffed to the brim!!!! It looks like the picture lol. Nobody there wants unwanted pregnancies.
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Condoms are a hell of a lot cheaper than children
As much as I'm certain this is not the case I still can't help but be self amused with the mental image of an exasperated Gavin Newsom coming out of an extensive review of data on just how much Californian highschool students do be going at it, and immediately declaring "nope, can't afford to rubber all that."
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"We want progressives!"
"You have progressives at home."
The progressive at home:
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Judging from a number of posts here, does that guy have "Veto Week" or what?
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I mean I do agree with the fact that the bill doesn't provide funding for the condoms just that the schools need to provide it. That sounds pretty dumb to me.
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To be fair…. If there were free condoms at my school, they would just be used for water balloons and pranks
Because babies and STDs are free.
Didn't Colorado do this and teen pregnancy rates nosedived?
Edit: I couldn't find any news of Colorado doing this. Apologize for the misinformation.
It was not condoms, here is the study you were most likely thinking about.
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